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It's We highly recommended to upgrade upgrading License Statistics as often as possible, and at least every 2 two years. |
This page details X-Formation provides 's support and maintain the older versions of License Statistics for 8 minor versions prior to the current version (at least 2 years).List of supported versions policy and provides a list of supported versions, which is updated with each minor release, typically 3-4 three to four times a year.
Support and upgrade policies
X-Formation's policies for support and upgrades are detailed below.
Support
- X-Formation provides support and maintenance for License Statistics for eight minor versions (at least two years) prior to the current version.
- The X-Formation Support Team provides phone and online help for the installations included on the list belowonly for supported versions
- For versions that are no longer supported versions the assistance , X-Formation support is limited to assisting with updating License Statistics to the a newer, supported version
Installation
- Installers for the supported versions of License Statistics are available to download from the X-Formation download portal
- In some cases, such as when needed , older installers are also available (for example, when installing an older version is required to maintain the update chain, older installers are available as well)
- Direct update to the newest version from supported older , still supported versions is possible using the installerinstallers:
- Direct update from no longer supported version may not be possible. Older versions may require to the newest version from unsupported older versions may first require upgrading to a newer version before you are able to upgrade to the most current , supported version. For For details, please follow the instruction the instructions matching your scenario.
Database
- X-Formation supports MySQL Server versions are supported for the length of time they are supported by the vendor (generally, 2 two years from their release date)
- Direct update of the MySQL Server by more than one major LTS (Long-Term Support) version is not supported by the vendor
- External database needs to be updated prior If you are using an external database, you must update the database prior to updating License Statistics
- Embedded database is updated If you are using an embedded database, it will be updated automatically by the installer when updating License Statistics from the still a supported version
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Data migration
- Ability The ability to migrate data directly to the newest version is maintained for 2-4 is maintained for two to four years
- Existing data migrations are supported for 8 eight previous versions
- New data migrations are added for another 8 eight versions
- After that time the The oldest migrations are removed , keeping last 8 versions onlyas new ones are added, so that only the last eight versions are kept
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Policy X-Formation's policy to maintain data migrations for longer than 2 two years was introduces introduced to allow for easier update from not supported unsupported older versions , by making a clean License Statistics installation and restoring the database backup on the new host. - It's possible to migrate data Data can be migrated from License Statistics v6.18 directly to License Statistics v7.0
- It will be still Direct migration from v6.18 will remain possible until License Statistics v7.8 is released
- With License Statistics v7.8, all data migrations prior to v7.0 will be removed, making direct database update form version prior and directly updating the database to v7.0 to 8 and newer from versions older than v7.8 an higher 0 will not be possible.
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Licenses
- Licenses generated for the supported versions of License Statistics may not work with older, no longer supported unsupported versions
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All licenses generated after the License Statistics v7.0 was released, will work with all versions supported at the time , so v7.0 was released (License Statistics v6.18 and above). However they , the licenses will not work with older, not supported unsupported versions (versions , prior to License Statistics v6.18). |
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Supported versions
The following list of currently supported versions is updated with each minor release, typically three to four times a year.
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| 7.0 | 2025-09-01 |  | - |
| 6.25 | 2025-05-12 | | |
| 6.24 | 2025-01-27 | | |
| 6.23 | 2024-10-22 | | |
| 6.22 | 2024-06-19 | | |
| 6.21 | 2024-02-28 | | |
| 6.20 | 2023-11-23 | | |
| 6.19 | 2023-08-29 | | |
| 6.18 | 2023-06-22 | | |
| 6.17 | 2023-01-23 |  | |
| older than 6.17 | - | | |